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Unprecedented intrusion
Even in a milieu where the judiciary has been continually expanding its own powers and entering into areas normally left to the executive and Parliament, a Supreme Court demand for the report of a standing committee of Parliament on a bill under ...

A President in disgrace
If Israel's President Moshe Katsav had any residue of shame, he would have quit office when the police recommended to the Attorney General that he should be indicted on charges of rape, sexual harassment, and illegal wire-tapping. The President's ...

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For an equitable rehabilitation policy
By Ramaswamy R. Iyer

The draft National Rehabilitation Policy 2006 should be sent back to the drawing board. We need a National Rehabilitation Act, not merely a policy. Those displaced by a project deserve a statutory first claim on its benefits.

News Analysis
The end of a long friendship?
By Pallavi Aiyar

North Korea's recent moves have pushed China into a corner.

U.S. finally waking up to failure in Iraq
By Simon Jenkins

The Vietnam moment is at hand.

U.N. set for the long haul
By Ed Pilkington

Venezuela and Guatemala deadlocked over Security Council seat.

Self-delusion of carbon-trading
By George Monbiot

Offsetting makes us feel better, allows us to consume more to the benefit of the polluters, deflects attention away from the real and present danger that is climate change and does little good.

Corrections and clarifications
In "Fact, fiction or the fog of drugs?" (Editorial page, October 18, 2006), the name of the Mumbai Police Commissioner was incorrectly as given M.N. Roy. It should have been A.N. Roy. In "Weaving gifts for President" ("Variety" page, October ...

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Judiciary vs. legislature

Mattoo murder case

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